Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Talking Heads: 77 shows that the mature outlook displayed on the album cover carries over into the group's music. This is heady stuff--none of this "God Save the Queen" business. David Byrne, who wrote all the songs, indulges in complex, self-absorbed musings, sometimes assuming ironic personas to comment on the emptiness of life...
Jihan Sadat, 43, is Westernized in her dress and in her outlook on social problems. The presidential consort, however, stays out of politics completely and was kept in the dark by her husband during the four major crises of his career: the 1952 revolution that overthrew King Farouk, an attempted coup by ambitious leftists in 1971, the October War of 1973, and his journey to Jerusalem in November. Last month, in an interview with TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, she recalled in revealing fashion these pivotal moments...
...outlook for Britain is better than at any time in the postwar years." He could be right?if the government finds the proper combination of tax cuts and investments in modernization. On the other hand, overly generous tax cuts, a niggardly attitude toward investment and a government cave-in to union wage demands could accelerate inflation again and continue industrial stagnation. North Sea oil does give Britain the chance to start the long climb to price stability and high employment?but it would be all too easy for the nation to blow that chance...
Whether Burns stays will depend to a large extent on the President's reading of the economic and political climate. If indicators are encouraging and his energy program is emerging in acceptable shape from Congress, he would feel freer to let Burns go. If the outlook is less ebullient, he might well want to keep Burns -and not rock the boat...
...convincing contrast to Aquino. His smaller stature reflects a personality of petty dimensions, and he plays it with the right touch of insecure eagerness and earnest naivete. Tesman's pride is his books, his major tension Lovborg's intellectual competition and his own half-admitted jealousy--a myopic outlook that leaves little room for his smothered wife...